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While calypso singers laugh at them: Satire in the music of Guyana and the West Indies

Posted on February 5, 2018 by sethink

Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain’s tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers – Bob Dylan, from “Desolation Row”, 1965 The calypso poets phrased much differently than the rest of the English … Continue reading →

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While calypso singers laugh at them: Satire in the music of Guyana and the West Indies

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